Since 1985, the lawyers at Shapiro & Appleton have dedicated their practice to helping people when they need it most. Our clients are usually down and out after a serious accident, struggling financially, physically, and emotionally. We take pride in advocating for the downtrodden and injured and getting the financial restitution they are owed.

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We are very proud of the success we have had in obtaining large settlements, arbitration awards, judgments, and jury verdicts. Our success is based mainly on our experience in courtrooms across Virginia.

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By adapting and being familiar with not only Virginia and North Carolina Courts, but also Courts throughout the Eastern United States, our attorneys have developed a set of skills that can be incredibly useful in every sort of significant personal injury case.

The attorneys with our firm actively engage in continuing legal education seminars in the field of injury law. Our lawyers have also regularly delivered lectures to personal injury lawyers not only in Virginia but at national trial organizations.

To stay on the leading edge of personal injury law, all of the firm's attorneys are active in local, state, and national personal injury trial law organizations. We also retain the services of forensic animators, videographers, and computer specialists to produce compelling evidence that will persuade a jury to award maximum damages.

When tractor trailers and cars are involved in wrecks it typically leads to a very scary situation. Depending on how the collisions occur, victims can be left with serous head or neck injuries or even possibly be killed. The Insurance Institute for Highway Safety has released new crash test results for eight types of semitrailers. These tests revealed that under-ride guards do a better job at keeping cars and trucks from sliding underneath the big rigs. The typical under-ride guard is steel bars that hang from two vertical components relatively near the center of the truck and sticks out toward the ends of the truck. Many trailer manufacturers have been installing under-ride guards on new trailers and are going above and beyond to install guards that are even stronger than guidelines require.

This is a picture of a crash test between a passenger vehicle and tractor trailer.

For one family we settled multiple cases stemming from their car being rear ended by a tractor-trailer at a stoplight. The husband, wife, and two daughters all suffered injuries. The wreck was so severe the front seats of our clients’ car collapsed backwards. The trunk of the small car was smashed into the passenger compartment of the car driving the little girls into the head rests on the top of the front seats, causing traumatic brain injuries to each girl. Through extensive work with medical professionals, a life care planner, and a structured settlement annuity consultant we determined the amount of the amount of money needed to cover the potential future needs of our brain injured client. We were able to resolve the case at mediation with sufficient funds to establish a trust to provide for the children's short term medical and educational needs and a structured settlement to provide long term financial security for our client.